If the fourteen Oscar nominations last Tuesday didn’t convince you La La Land was going to win the Oscar, then maybe the guild awards from over the weekend will. Two of the biggest guild awards were presented this weekend, the Producers Guild...

Ed. Note: My apologies for how late this is. It took me a while to figure out exactly what I wanted to say about each of these ten great films. The Best of 2016 breakdown will continue as scheduled this Wednesday

Tonight, the Screen Actors Guild will present their awards for the best performances of the year. I will be updating the list of winners live throughout the night, with a breakdown coming sometime tomorrow. If you can’t watch the show on...

Tonight, the Screen Actors Guild will give out their awards for the best performances of the year. This is significant, both because the actors make up the biggest voting branch of the Academy, giving a big boost to the films that win here, and...

Man, what a week it’s been. We finally have our Oscar nominees, which means I now have a small list of films I need to catch up on before the big day in February. In the meantime, I didn’t watch anything for review today, but I did have a busy...

I was subbing in on a podcast last night when the news broke, so I didn’t get a chance to report it at the time, but we’ve been dealt another piece of tragic news, as beloved character actor John Hurt has passed away at the age of 77 after a...

I’ve only seen one Mary Tyler Moore project. It was her Oscar-nominated performance in Ordinary People, where she played decidedly against type as a cold, unfeeling woman desperate for normalcy in the face of a horrible tragedy. So it’s fair to...

We’ve been talking a lot about the Oscars the past couple of days, but that’s not the only awards show in the news. There’s also the universally despised but always entertaining Golden Raspberry Awards. Starting 37 years ago as a joke, the...

Well, after forcing us to sit through the most cloying announcement process in the history of the show, we finally know where we stand: the 89th Academy Award nominations. And my what a field they are. Sure, there were enough predictable calls to...

The moment is finally here: the Oscar nominations! You can see the full list of nominees below, updated live as they are announced. Or, if you want to watch the stream live, you can click on this link to the Facebook page, or you can watch the...

Note: This is a long article. Scroll down a bit if you only want to read about my changes, and scroll all the way to the bottom if you want to see the predictions. Otherwise, please enjoy this labor of love
The last time I wrote an Oscar...